George McGovern, the three-term senator from South Dakota who carried the Democratic Party's liberal banner in the Vietnam War era, launched a star-crossed bid for the presidency in 1972, and energized many of the leading Democrats of the past generation, died Sunday at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90.

Two kidnapped employees of the United Nations World Food Program were released hours after they were abducted, a spokesman said Monday, but 11 aid workers remained in captivity amid a series of attacks on the humanitarian community.

Students at a rural elementary school in Cambodia had their last free breakfasts in class after the United Nations World Food Program stopped supplying rice and other food because of soaring global prices.

Well before 8 o'clock on a late April morning, a line of about 30 eager customers forms at a modest bakery in this working-class neighborhood. With a global food crisis roiling countries from Asia to the edge of Europe, at least 11 people have been killed recently in such lines here, struggling to get their daily bread.